--- title: Mimi Nguyen | TIME description: Nguyen is R&D lead at Mana Search, co-founder of Mana Lab, a PhD fellow at Imperial College London, and Innovation Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. canonical: https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Mimi Nguyen  ## Mimi Nguyen _Nguyen is R&D lead at Mana Search, co-founder of Mana Lab, a PhD fellow at Imperial College London, and Innovation Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London._  ## Mimi Nguyen *  Aug 13, 2021 ### [Research Shows Working From Home Doesn’t Work. Here’s How Employers Should Tackle the Problem](https://time.com/6088110/remote-work-structured-hybrid-research/) Working from home doesn’t work for many workers. Employers need to tackle the problem with a new mod... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/","name":"Mimi Nguyen"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/"},"name":"Mimi Nguyen","jobTitle":null,"description":"Nguyen is R&D lead at Mana Search, co-founder of Mana Lab, a PhD fellow at Imperial College London, and Innovation Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt475def5cc12aca45/698a1bb5457a522355d65614/Mimi-Nguyen-bw.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/mimi-nguyen/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```